Teesside Rifle & Pistol Club

Good turn out today at Whitfell.
The weather was very good.
Thanks to everyone who helped out and made it a good shoot
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TRPC

Good evening,

Just in case you missed the email from the Secretary sent earlier today.

Unfortunately tomorrows shoot at Whipperdale has been cancelled.

TRPC

Teesside Rifle & Pistol Club updated their business hours.

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A good turn out again for the Cowpark shoot this morning.
Thanks to everyone who turned up.
TRPC

3 Sep 23
10 rounds of .308 Win loaded during the Hand-loading Course and tested at 300 yards in gusty 10mph wind.
220mm (8.5”) lateral and 60mm (2.4”) vertical.
Bullet was a basic Hornady 150g FMJ.
Mean velocity was a modest 2586 fps.
Rifle was Parker-Hale 1200TX.
This group was shot with the Magnetospeed chronograph fitted.

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TRPC

A .451” Pedersoli ‘Mortimer’ percussion muzzle-loading rifle on its first outing, on a very wet day at Black Beck range. Still from a video shot by Norman.
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TRPC

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Photo taken by Mike Sweeting of running boar range at British Sporting Rifle Club range on 20th July. Boar is running left to right, 10m exposure, distance 50 yards. .22LR rifle.

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TRPC

Hi all,

A small group of members visited WMS Fi****ms Training this week. For some this was their third visit, for one it was their first.

Maximum distance achieved was 1550m with the 6.5’s more than holding their own against the .338’s at 1550m in windy conditions.

If you look closely at the second photograph you can just make out the quarry they were shooting into.

The members also took part in some long range .22 and gallery rifle shooting out to 300 yards as well as trying some old military rifles supplied by WMS.

Once again Andrew and Helena were great hosts. Andrews continued tuition provided significant improvements for everyone’s shooting over the course of the two day visit.

Cheers

TRPC

A couple of photos from todays shoot at Whipperdale accompanied by some great weather.

Good to see some new faces and first time shooters on the range today.

For the lady in the photograph today was her first time firing a rifle and by all accounts shot very well.

In the second photograph one of the members is shooting his 1943 Mk 4 Lee Enfield.

Don’t forget to check our website for the date of the next shoot.

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TRPC

Several of our members visited Bisley last weekend. Weather forecast wasn’t great but it like they had a great time.

This is one of our members shooting a .303 Lee-Enfield No. 4 from 1,000 yards using battle sights.

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TRPC

This one made us laugh!! Please do not try this at the range.

TRPC

This just popped up on another FB page, with TRPC’s links back to Hartlepool I thought it was worth sharing. I’m not actually sure which club this as there used to be at least 2 if not more in the town.

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TRPC

Congratulations to Bill for second place in the 2022 McChesney Cup.
Thanks to everyone who took part.

Congratulations to Victor for first place in the 2022 McChesney Cup.
Thanks to everyone who took part.

Bisley, October 2022.

Result of five rounds rapid fire from a Springfield M1903 rifle using battle sights at 600 yards. Shot using the military-issue M1917 pattern leather sling. The red squares are 3”. The group is 24” wide or 4 minutes of angle. There was minimal wind (3-5mph).

A Tube rifle. 6.5x47 Lapua. Built by Dave Folwell for Brian Kelly. On test at 100m after an absence of two years and recent trigger adjustment.

TRPC

And I thought .50 Cal was something developed from WW2?

According to the accompanying description this is a 13mm. Sounds like it was a bit of a beast to shoot!!

New Zealand soldiers posing for a photograph with a captured German Tank Gewehr, August 25, 1918.
This photograph, colourised by was taken today 104 years ago during the Second Battle of the Somme (1918).
The German "Ma**er Tankgewehr M1918", usually just called the T-Gewehr (Tank Rifle), the first ever designated anti-tank rifle in the history of warfare, and the only one used in the First World War.
By June 1917, the British were deploying the Mark IV tanks on the battlefield, and the Germans discovered their standard armour-piercing bullets were no longer effective at putting them out of action.
Not even their MG-08 machine-guns could pierce the British tanks and hand-grenades and artillery were too unreliable to stop a tank advancing directly towards a German trench.
Following the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917, in which the British really demonstrated the potential of their tanks to break the trench stalemate, the Germans began development of a new rifle designated for anti-tank purposes.
By January 1918, the Tankgewehr M1918 had been developed, manufactured by Ma**er, a high-caliber, single-shot, bolt-action rifle, heavily inspired by rifles used to hunt elephants in Africa. Mass production of the Tank Gewehr began in May 1918, and 15,800 had been built by the end of the war.
The Tank Gewehr weighed 15.9 kg alone, 18.5 kg with the bipod, and was operated by a two-man crew, a gunner and an ammunition bearer. The gunner carried the rifle itself and 20 specially designed 13 mm Ma**er cartridges, whilst the ammunition bearer carried two shoulder bags with 20 rounds each, and an ammunition box with an additional 72 cartridges.
With an effective range of 500 meters, the Tank Gewehr did its job at stopping enemy tanks. However, missing a muzzle brake, the rifle suffered from massive recoil, and shooting multiple rounds often led to headaches for the gunner. The bipod had to be anchored to the ground before firing if the gunner did not want to risk serious injuries due to the recoil.

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TRPC

A few photographs from last weekends Black Powder Certification course at Bisley.

Yes…….that is a cannon, apparently they are very popular?!!

The day consisted of a classroom session in the morning followed by practical assessments in the afternoon.

The practical sessions involved loading and shooting a flintlock pistol and a percussion cap rifle and pistol.

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TRPC

Good turn out today at Whitfell the weather was against us but it was still fun.
Thanks to everyone who helped out.

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TRPC

Just a bit of daftness. We guess you have to be of a certain age!!

We haven’t posted for a while. Here are a couple of photos of the last shoot at Peatfell.

Cannot believe the temperature got up to 33 Degrees on the day.